RE: [TruthTalk] Intentional sin -- the Judas factor

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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Intentional sin -- the Judas factor   I believe that there exists in all of our lives a discontinuity between HEAD and HEART.While we do seek to minimize this split  yet the majority, approaching ALL, of our disputations on TT take place over our conceptual constructs of WHO GOD IS. Someone has said that 'the 'who' questions always take precedence over the 'what' questions'. Slade's illustration serves to make this point IMO. That cancer-sufferer may die while embracing a 'regulative belief' concerning Who God Is. If he's correct then: 1. God may be testing his faith unto death 2. God may heal him at the last moment 3. He may be wrong thus, die needlessly   If we think of TT as a virtual room inhabitated by true and genuine believers then, we are totally unified until one simple thing takes place namely, speaking/writing. When we speak of that which we have done, we are reflecting WHO we believe God to be. The thoughts and intents of the heart are elusive even within ourselves not to speak of other's perceptions of us. Thus we come full circle, as all through all of our lives we seek (if we are disciples) to minimize the split between head and heart to the Glory of God. God grant that we may know who He is and live out of that knowledge   Those who know us, truly know us, are more aware of this split (dualism) than those who do not. It, understably, aggrivates them. Family, friends, employers/employees/collegues. We cannot hide who we are from such over an extended period of time.     I hear you, Lance.  I believe that the closer one comes to Christ-likeness, the more integrated he/she becomes in faith/actions.  The split disappears.  We no longer have to hide. It’s called freedom.  J Izzy